Reviewer:Ella_Greggs
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April 26, 2009 Subject:
Powerful and Heartbreaking Melodrama
Lillian Gish's performance will break your heart! The lead characters are exquisitely fragile, just like flower stems, and beautifully realized. The
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film gets off to an oh-so-slightly slow start in China, but once the scene shifts to America, you'll be hooked. The closet scene is really harrowing, even by today's standards. Favorite moment: Lucy's reaction when Cheng Huan gives the abused girl her first doll. The print is in surprisingly good shape. "Broken Blossoms" is as fine as, or better than, a lot of films being produced today.
Reviewer:katpooh9
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March 3, 2009 Subject:
worth watching
This movie is also available on this same site on an earlier page. There are a lot of repeats as the page numbers go up. It would be great if the administrator
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of this web site would clean out the duplicates. Anyway, this movie is worth 5 stars.